Nori ignites a torch and slinks into the hall. She sets it down in the corner of the hall's bend then creeps ahead, trying to keep her shadow from falling upon the doors before she can reach them.
Nori listens to the door before pulling out her picks to pop the lock.
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@Jinx: You can't find the trap mechanism... perhaps more of that shifty magic. But it takes you little effort to unlock the door!
Going through the three rooms, they are additional storage, although the locked room contains a good number of magical components.
The value of the storage rooms is probably 2,500gp.
Nori groans awake as the undine's magic pulls her back to consciousness. She grumbles, clutching her still throbbing head. She draws out the wand and taps it to her head before climbing to her feet. She follows her compatriots in, scanning the room with her magical eyes.
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Nori heals herself up some, then tries to see if there is anything magical.
She detects the faintest of magical auras coming from the 3rd storeroom, although a casual inspection determines that it's just some various arcane components for spells and crafting. Valuable as a whole (ie, worth noting as part of the estate), but nothing important that can be used immediately.
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Jinx looks over the southern door; she finds no locks or traps on it, but the door is made of thick dark iron and etched with various arcane runes.
These are obscure glyphs for imprisoning dangerous summoned creatures.
Feeling it is safe, Jinx opens the door.
The ten-foot-square antechamber's north wall is an artfully wrought gate with a complex lock of bright metal that opens into a larger chamber beyond/ The walls of the chamber are covered in strange glyphs and runes, including one enormous word scrawled in one-foot-high letters across the north wall.
The runes are written in Abyssal, but the big one in the back is CTHEPALTANGOULGI.
A voice can be heard from inside the main chamber, but below, perhaps in a pit. "Here to gloat over me some more, wizard? And without your usual greeting? You'll play that game one time too often, and on that day, I'll enjoy supping on your entrails!", the voice snarls.
Nori shakes her head, "That creature may want to step on us if we do open it. Best we not provoke."
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The party, deciding not to deal with the voice for the time being, checks out the other path.
After checking the door , the party doesn't notice anything dangerous on the door, hear anything on the other side, and confirm that it is unlocked.
Six stone slabs sit on the floor of this chamber. Heaped upon each are metal tools, gears, springs, and other parts for the construction of mechanical creations.
The equipment is used for making clockworks. You also get a +4 bonus to the Appraise/Kn: Arcana check below.
The tools, resources, and parts in this lab are worth about 2,500 gold crowns.
There is a hidden door against the eastern wall.
Nori takes a look as well, running her fingers along the outline, testing bricks and such.
Nori finds the catch and releases it, easing the portal open. She peers in beyond, keeping the torch low.
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The party follows the passageway, wary of more traps from the damnable Hunclay. The hallway winds around the clockwork lab, eventually leading to a hallway to with paths to the left. Heading to the closet turn, the group finds an iron gate that hangs slightly ajar. Wakiyan and Darb can see the bare glint of something metallic lining the end of the floor.
Nori sets the torch at the end of the hall and, keeping to the other wall as not to cast a shadow, creeps forward to peer in to the low light beyond.
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Nori tries to slink in, but kicks a rock that clangs off the metal gate. Cursing in her head, she slowly treads further to see what is in the room
Inside, the room is bare except for a conjuration circle of silvery metal inlaid in the stone floor, and a small, rickety table on which sits a thin journal. A small, fat-headed infant with slender, twisted horns and the wings of a fly nervously paces, looking towards the gate.
"Who is there?", it speaks in Taldane Common. "You back, Hunclay?"
Nori straightens some, noticing how the creatures eyes tracked her even in the dark. She toes the edge of the circle, feeling for the tell tale signs of a magic binding, "Hunclay is no more. Who are you?"
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"Call me Akrom.", it says after a short pause.
You guess that it paused to come up with a name for itself. But given the alien nature of the target, it is probably an outsider, and true names have power over them.
"Please, break the circle so I may be free; even placing an object over the metal lines is enough to grant me my freedom!"
"Akrom, then...why did Hunclay trap you so?" Nori glanced about the room, looking for something to lay across them.
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"He wanted to torture knowledge out of me! ", Akrom cries out.
Nori sees that the table in the room is large enough to make a gap.
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Nori moves to the table and drags it close but not over the line.
"That is absolutely terrible..." She said half-heartedly,"So how would freeing you benefit me?"